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NOX SECRET.
AIR MAIL.
53514
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
2nd January, 1936.
12.
16.
53514.
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Copy to Appun
Sir,
With reference to your Secret 2 despatch of
19th November, 1935, on the subject of the desire of the Air
Ministry to obtain possession of an aerodrome site at Pat
Heung in the New Territories, I have the honour to inform
you that this site comprises approximately three hundred
acres, of which less than twenty acres is Crown Land.
2.
Following demi-official negotiations the
Colonial Goverment informed the Air Authorities in Hong Kong
that, subject to your approval, it was prepared to recommend
transfer to the Air Ministry of the Pat Heung aerodrome site
upon the following main conditions :-
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(a) No premium to be charged.
(b)
Cost of resumption of privately owned land to be
borne by the Air Ministry.
(c) Cost of forming the site, drainage, etc., to be
borne by the Air Ministry.
(d) The Air Ministry to pay consolidated Crown Rent
(twenty-five years purchase) in respect both of
resumed private lots and of Crown Land.
147.
(e) Access Road. As the proposed Access Road coincided
with Goverment schemes for future road extension
and as upon completion it was to be made available
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
J.H. THOMAS, M.P.
&C.,
&c.,
&c.